Edward, known to everyone as Ted was born in 1926 to Richard and Ethel Mattingly, who were living at 59 Huntsmoor Road, Wandswoth at the time. He was the youngest of eight children born to the couple. All survived into old age apart from Richard Mattingly who died in 1923, aged 5. Ted`s father would have been aged 48 at the time of his birth and his wife 40. Sadly, she was to die in 1931, leaving Ted, aged just 5 without a mother, which must have been devastating for one so young. The family had lived in Wandsworth since the end of the First World War and were to move to 19 Concanon Road in nearby Brixton the following year. Here Ted was to spend much of his early life, being brought up by his father, Richard, with his 2 brothers (Eric and George) and four sisters (Ethel, Helen, Betty and Mary). His father, Richard appears in records as a Labourer, although he remembers him as a Gardener, working for a wealthy family in London.
Ted started School at nearby Santley Street in 1931 aged five and left there in February 1940, when he would have been just fourteen. His first Job was as a Job Office Clerk, which he started soon after he left at P.S.V. Operators in Pimlico in London. It was short lived and four months later he joined the Post Office delivering Telegrams on his bicycle. His best friend, Fred Hodges, enrolled at the same time. He was later to become an important part of Ted`s story when his sister, was to marry him.  The year, 1940 was the height of the second World War and both boys would see the devastation of the Blitz first hand when they would go out on their bikes the following morning delivering telegrams through bombed out streets. Towards the end of the war, he was called up for service at the age of 18. He was to join the Household Calvary on the 20 th March  1944 at their Barracks at Windsor. He unfortunately had a serious accident on his back and discharged from the Army on the 25th May of the same year. He then took up a post as a clerk at Airscreen, based at Vauxhall in London.  The following year on the 10th January he took on a similar post at West Gas on the Kingsway in London. He was to stay with them for the next 18 years. 
He had known Edith Hodges as the sister of his best friend, Fred from his time at Santley School, where she was a pupil. In time they were to fall in love and were to get married on the 31st July, 1948 at St. Matthew’s Church in Brixton, with Fred as his best man. Edith’s father was a City Policeman and the family lived nearby at 135 Ferndale Court. The family later moved to 45 Trelawn Road in Brixton. 
Times were hard for the young couple and they moved into one of the war time Rest Centers at Euston Square. It was here on the 29th July a year later that their first child, Neil was born. By December of that year they were successful in renting a Council House at 179 Farmington Avenue on one of the new Estates at Romford in Essex. Two years later their second son, Richard was born on the 6th January.  Before the year was out, they moved to a larger house nearby at 9 Dorking Way. 
Missing their families, the young couple decided to return to their childhood homes and  rent a flat at no. 13 Washbrook House in 1952. It is here that Steven is born on the 30th November 1956. The following year they make the momentous decision to buy a house in the suburbs of London at Sidcup. This is a departure from the paths taken by their siblings who remain around Brixton. The new house, 157 Burnt Oak Lane, is to make a wonderful family home. Ted takes the train to London every day and his wife takes on the role of housewife. Their children go to the local schools and have many friends in the neighbouring streets. Although settled there, they decide to sell the house and move to a similar property at 53 Haddon Grove in 1960. 
Unhappy with his position at West Gas, where he had been for the last 18 years, Ted sees an advert in the Dalton’s Weekly for a Greengrocers shop and decides after advice from a friend to buy the lease and throw his secure job in. This creates a huge upheaval as the family move from their lovely house to a one bedroomed flat above the shop at 148 Croydon Road in Beckenham. Although they work really hard to make a success of the venture, there is not sufficient passing trade to make it profitable and they take another great leap this time to Margate in Kent. Here they buy a Greengrocers at 106 Northdown Road. The town is booming at that time with a large number of guest houses and Hotels for the hordes of visitors who came each summer. The family have a pleasant flat above the shop and make many friends amongst their neighbours. On the 20th February 1968, Amanda is born and is their first girl after three boys. Their business prospers and they take on another Greengrocers nearby and a further shop at the far end of Northdown Road in due course. They are finally able to buy their own house again and move to a large detached property at 15 Leicester Avenue in Clifftonville, Margate. 
Although the three shops are successful, Ted decides to enter a partnership with his eldest son, Neil and they call it Jenwood Limited. He has developed an interest in Stamp Collecting into a business which is booming with the increase in collectors looking at it as an investment. Neil had also bought the neighbouring house and another at Westgate. They decide to put their resources together and buy a very large house with a tennis court and 5 acres of garden called Broomhill in the village of Wingham, near Canterbury. It here that the family move in 1973. The partnership does not work out , Neil remains at Broomhill, whilst the rest of his family move to Brambles, East Studdal, near Dover. 
Edward and his wife have in the meantime created their own Stamp Approval business named Sovereign Stamps which they run from their new house and enjoy village life. In time their son, Richard joins them and builds a house on part of their garden. Their other son Steven meets his future wife, Jan who was living nearby to them. 
In 1981, Ted and Bobbie were living at Sandhurst, in Cliftonville, before moving to Somner Close in Canterbury. There then follows a number of moves on the Palm Bay Estate which include 19 Springfield Road, Warwick Avenue and Prices Avenue. By 2002, then aged 75, they were at 33 Dalmeny Avenue and after another move  finally settled at 59 Knockholt Road in Cliftonville.
This is the briefest of summaries of Ted`s long life and I hope the following photographs and information widen the scope of this booklet. For most of his long life he had known and been married to his wife, Bobbie and they had bought up a successful and happy family, who in turn have been blessed with their own children. There were to be  many family celebrations over the years leading up to their amazing 70th Wedding Anniversary in 2018 at the Walpole bay Hotel in Cliftonville surrounded by the many members of their large family.